Improved railway-car journal-box



- J. BLCOLLIN.

' CrJournai Box.

Patented JSept. 28, 1869.l

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Letters Patent No. 95,196, dated S'eptembwl 28, 1869.

i IMrRovED RAILWAY-CAR .roujnNAL-Box The Schedule referred to :ln these Lettere Patent and making part of the same. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. B. COLLIN, of Altoona, in the countyof Blair, andl State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Railroad-Oar Journal- Box; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable i others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figiire 1 represents a vertical longitudinal central section of i my im proved-` j carnal-box.

Figure 2 is a front view of the same.

Figure 3 isa detail horizontal section of'4 the same, takeron the `plane of the line a: x, fig. 1; Y

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to an improvement in car-axle boxes;` and consists in pivoting tothe journal-box a spring-plate with corrugated erids to' lock under a pair A,\ `inthe drawing, represents a journal-box, of suitable shape andsize.

v `B ,is the lid, hinged to the box byga pin, a.

l The 'lid is so formed that its middle portion is higher than the edges, as shown in fig.1 .l l-

To this `raised middle portion "is, lby a. pin, b,'pivoted a spring-bar o1` plate, C, whichhas h mgitndinaily-eor `rugated ends, as indicated in ligs. 2 and 3.

Op the box are, above and below the lid,iformed projecting vhooks c d, which, with' their bills, point toward the pivot The ends of the plate Q are, in order to lock the lid, put under the hooks `Iou d, as in fig. 2.

Thehooks are V-shapel in their cross-section, and l "The plate springs sudiciently to let its raised' por' -tions pass ,the hooks when/to be opened or locked.

In theordinary boxes, the oil frequently oozes out between the axle and the rearopening of the box, and does then trickle down on the Wheel upon the rail. To prevent this, I have provided a forward-inclined pipe or aperture, e, in the lower back part of the box to `take the oil that Hows over out, and to lconduct'it away from the wheel. v

D represents a transverse rib, arranged in the box,

under the front opening of the same, to prevent the packing from being thrown up against the lid, and -from forcing the same open. I

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters l Patent-'- The spring-plate C, pivotedlto the lid Bof a journal-box,and provided with corrugated ends to lock under the hooks c d, substantially as and for the pur-V pose herein shown and described.

' J. B. COLL'IN.

Witnesses p WILSON O. BUCHANAN, `B. E. 'Il wmo. 

